Are positionals a outdated thing?

[Dzian]

I haven't seen the video but positionals should have been scrapped years ago.They do nothing at all and really don't feel rewarding to hit. I and several others did the math on this way back in storm blood one such thread as an example

To take ninja as a quick example If they just stayed behind the boss and really didn't care about positionals you would never notice.. they'd lose 60 potency every ~30 seconds on their armor crush. which works out at a whopping total of 2 whole potency per second, this is something like 0.5% damage... Which is immeasurable as a variance that small would easily fall under the margin of error allowed for crits, directs or even a tiny fluctuation in latency As a result, there's no impact to them so should be scrapped entirely. Plus with more and more boss encounters not requiring them anyway the impact they carry is even less.

To me, they are a relic from 1.0 and I couldn't care less if they kept or removed them at this point. They add a bit of optimization to melee and a little difficulty which is usually a good thing, however, I don't think they add enough difficulty to justify staying if SE wanted to remove them.

They're not even a relic from 1.0. In 1.0 the positional requirements were on the first skills of a combo not the last and they carried impact as a result. Hitting a positional allowed you to combo. Missing a positional wouldn't.

Hell even tanks had them and it was pretty satisfying to successfully find that right moment to duck behind a boss land a hit to open up a higher damage combo and get back in front of the boss without turning it and ruining everyone else's combos.. That's real reward, real impact.

ARR+ they're just weightless and pointless. and should have been axed years ago.. i would say take them back to the 1.23 system but we all the devs run a million miles from complex or actual rewarding gameplay.

[AmiableApkallu]

In 1.0 the positional requirements were on the first skills of a combo not the last and they carried impact as a result. Hitting a positional allowed you to combo. Missing a positional wouldn't.

Hell even tanks had them and it was pretty satisfying to successfully find that right moment to duck behind a boss land a hit to open up a higher damage combo and get back in front of the boss without turning it and ruining everyone else's combos. That's real reward, real impact.

That sounds like the sort of thing I wish was more prevalent in this game's job and combat design: features that let you know that you messed something up.

My sense of accomplishment is diminished when I don't know what failure feels like.